In 2010, the General Services Administration sold Ram Island Ledge Lighthouse at the edge of Portland Harbor for $190,000 to Windham neurosurgeon Jeffrey Florman in an auction that Girard also bid in.

The U.S. Coast Guard puts about five lighthouses in New England and the Great Lakes up for auction each year, Sclafani told The York Weekly.

Excess lighthouses are offered to other government agencies, nonprofits and preservationists before being placed on the auction block.

The sales of Boon Island Light and Halfway Rock will bring the U.S. General Services Administration’s total to 38 lighthouses to be sold to private owners through auction, while another 68 have been transferred at no cost to nonprofits, according to The Forecaster.

The most expensive lighthouse sale recorded was the $933,888 sale of Graves Light in Boston Harbor last year, The Forecaster reported.